Startup 9: What are you wearing today?

Like many people, I am a student. I attend over a dozen classes at two different colleges. I also attend regular social events and networking meetups. I often wonder as I am dressing, is this the same thing I wore last time I went to the place I’m heading now?

It sounds silly, but it’s something I always ask myself because I want to make the right impression. This is further complicated by the fact that I am something of a minimalist, so I keep less than ten shirts at any given time and only a few pair of pants/ shorts.

I was talking one day to my mom about this anxiety I feel, and she emphatically agreed.

I decided to make a simple app to keep track of what I wear each day so that I can look back and see what I wore last time I was at a particular class or event and know not to wear the same thing again. It’s schmuck insurance.

MVP

The minimum viable product version of this app is not social; each user’s profile is private. Users can post pictures from a simple single-page app which also lets them edit each post’s blurb, or delete their posts.

Paradigm Shift

This app is written completely in the functional paradigm. I wrote it as a single page html/js application which is built to be hosted on S3 and take advantage of Lambda for the functions.

I did not actually deploy it there because I Don’t already have accounts with those services, and they don’t support my primary language, PHP. The point was not to actually do those things, but to rapidly write a simple, complete app in that paradigm and get a sense of the workflow and how to construct the API.